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HENDR1CK  HUDSON,  one  of  four  fine  DISCOVER  Y  OF  THE  SITE  OF  NEW  A  Alb  1  EKUAA1,  Sept.  2,  1609,  by 
heroic  bronze  statues,  by  J.  Massey  Rhind,  on  the  Hudson,  an  English  navigator  in  the  employ  of  Dutch  merchants,  sailing  in  the  "  Half 
Broadway  facade  of  Astor's  Exchange  Court  Bldg.       Moon."  In  161  3  Adrian  Block  came  in  the"Tiger,"  wintering  on  site  of  Aldrich  Court. 


Cro'  Nest  Storm  King  Hudson  River,  looking  North  Pollopel's  Is.  Constitution  Is.  Breakneck  Mt.  Mt.  Taurus 
HIGHLANDS  OF  THE  HUDSON,  showing  the  Northern  Gateway,  with  its  four  great  mountain  sentinels.  The  picturesque  Highlands 
extend  southward  twenty  miles.    The  view  is  from  Trophy  Point,  the  northern  end  of  West  Point.    The  Catskill  Mountains  lie  to  the  north.  AVjgyWt 


THE   "  HENDRICK  HUDSON" 

THE  WORLD'S  LARGEST,  STANCHEST  AND   MOST  MAGNIFICENT  STEAMBOAT 

THE  HUDSON  RIVER  DAY  LINE.  .   ^  .     —By  IVm.  IVirl  Mills 

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IN  the  autumn  of  1906  the  new  "  Hendrick  Hudson 
place  at  the  head  of  all  kindred  steamboats  on  the  rivers  of  the 
globe.    It  embodies  all  of  the  most  modern  ideas  in  ship  building. 
It  is  historically  almost  the  lineal  descendant  of  the  original  "Clermont. " 
It  is  built  on  the  river  to  whose  service  it  is  to  be  devoted. 

In  the  application  of  the  principle  of  the  steel  skyscraper  to  steam- 
boat construction,  the  W.  &  A.  Fletcher  Co.,  of  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  have 
produced  in  the  "  Hendrick  Hudson"  a  craft  that  is  a  radical  departure 


from  every  other  sidewheeler  afloat.  Its  rigid  framework  of  steel  has 
been  so  knit  together  by  girders  and  trusses  that  it  has  been  possible  to 
dispense  with  the  ungainly  centre  hogframe,  and  the  paddle-wheel  shart 
has  been  placed  below  the  main  deck,  thus  removing  a  disfigurement 
of  the  interior  that  has  been  regarded  as  inevitable  in  the  construction 
of  sidewheelers. 

Seven  watertight  bulkheads  make  the  vessel  practically  unsinkable, 
and  heavy  steel  sheathing,  inclosing  the  boiler  and  machinery,  < 


HENDRICK  HUDSON  MEMORIAL  BRIDGE,  to  be  erected  over  Harlem  Ship  Canal  ( Spuyten  Duyvil),  by  the  City  of  New  York, 
to  commemorate  in  1909  the  Ter-Centenary  of  the  discovery  of  the  Hudson.  Designed  by  Alfred  P.  Boiler;  length,  2,500  ft.;  central 
span  8zo  ft.;  clear  height,  175  ft.;  estimated  cost  $5,000,000.     Connects  Riverside  Drive  Extension  with  Spuyten  Duyvil  in  the  Bronx. 


danger  from  fire.  Eight  mammoth  boilers,  with  a  steam  pressure  of 
pounds  to  the  square  inch,  furnish  the  power  to  give  the  24-foot  paddle 
wheels  fortv  revolutions  a  minute  Each  wheel  has  nine  curved  paddles, 
each  16  feet,  6  inches  long,  bv  4  feet  wide,  and  their  teatl 
practically  eliminates  all  jarring  or  vibration. 

With  a  capacity  equal  to  that  of  the  five 
largest  hotels  in  New  York  City,  the  "Hen- 
drick  Hudson"  will  daily  prove  a  luxurious 
summer  resort  for  about  five  thousand  people. 
With  the  great  expanse  of  six  decks,  this 
throng  can  dispose  itself  comfortably  to  see 
the  beauteous  panorama  and  enjoy  the 
breezes  that  ever  sweep  the  broad  tidal  river 
and  waft  aboard  the  aroma  of  the  forests. 

No  freight  being  carried,  the  entire  in- 
terior, conveniently  arranged  and  magnifi- 


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and  ten  smaller  rooms,  all  artistically  decorated.  On  the  shade  deck 
there  will  be  two  Louis  XVI  drawing  rooms  in  ivory  enamel  and  gold. 
On  the  saloon  deck  there  will  be  two  Japanese  rooms,  four  in  quartered 
oak  after  the  style  of  the  Art  Nouvtau,  two  Dutch  rooms  in  oak,  two 
French  Empire  parlors  in  mahogany  and 
gold,  and  two  in  the  colonial  style  in  poplar 
and  mahogany. 

There  will  be  a  large  teakwood  writing 
room  and  a  woman's  boudoir  in  white  ma- 
hogany. The  central  feature  of  the  interior 
will  be  the  grand  stairway,  surmounted  by  a 
stained  glass  dome. 

Frank  E.  Kirby,  the  eminent  naval  ar- 
chitect, has  had  constant  charge  of  every 

Besides  carrying  a  physician,  the  "Hen- 
drick  Hudson"  will  have  a  corps  of  sten- 
ographers and  typewritists,  and  a  well- 
equipped  darkroom  willafford  photographers 
opportunity  to  develop  their  pictures  of  the 
Hudson  on  the  spot. 

In  the  main  saloons  there  will  be  a  series 
of  panel  paintings  by  Vernon  Howe  Bailey, 
depicting  various  scenes  along  the  river,  and 
in  the  parlors  will  be  found  canvases  bv 
celebrated  American  and  foreign  artists. 

The  galley  will  be  aft,  under  the  main 
deck,  ventilated  by  a  tall  shaft,  so  that  the 
odor  of  cooking  will  not  reach  the  decks. 
The  height  of  the  two  stacks,  seventy  feet, 
will  secure  to  the  passengers  immunity  from 
smoke  and  cinders,  while  the  double  casing 
ell  aft,  will  prevent  their  heating  the  vessel. 


vi  11  be  given  to  the  com- 
fort of  passengers,  so  that  all  will  find  an 
abundance  of  luxurious  accommodations. 

On  the  hurricane  deck  are  large  obser- 
vation rooms,  Convention  Hall,  all  enclosed 
in  plate  glass,  giving  an  uninterrupted  view 
of  both  sides  of  the  river.  The  after  obser- 
vation room  can  be  reserved  and  rented  as 
a  convention  room. 

The  grand  promenade  around  these 
rooms  is  probably  the  most  commodious 
afloat,  one  seventh  of  a  mile  in  circuit, 
while  the  enormous  main  saloons  and  dining 
room,  finished  in  mahogany, will  be  tempting 
in  their  elegant  luxury.  A  string  band  will 
occupy  a  stand  suspended  in  an  opening  in 

the  saloon  deck  forward,  so  placed  that  the  music  will  be  heard  also  in     of  the  stacks,  which 

the  forward  parr  of  the  main  deck,  which  will  be  finished  in  French  gray  That  the  life  of  one  man  should  almost  span  the  period  of  devel 

oak.  Three  thousand  people  can  sit  comfortably  within  earshot  of  the  opment  from  the  pioneer  voyage  of  the  "Clermont"  in  1807  to 
orchestra.    Besides  these  great  saloons  there  will  be  fourteen  large  parlors     the  launching  of  the  "  Hendrick  Hudson"  in  1906  is  one  of  the 

^KATHARINE  L.  OLCOTT,  granddaughter  of  Commodore  Alfred  Van  Santvoord,  founder  of  the  Hudson  River  Day  Line,  and  daughter 
ot  Eben  E.  Olcott,  president  of  the  company.  As  the  "Hendrick  Hudson"  glided  down  the  ways  Miss  Olcott  named  the  vessel,  breaking 
over  the  bow  a  bottle  of  water  from  a  spring  in  the  Catskills,  and  six  doves  were  set  free,  after  the  Japanese  custom,  as  the  hull  took  to  the  water. 


Olcott,  the  Sponsur* 


remarkable  features  of  a  century  of  progress  in   river  navigation.  Abram  Van  Santvoord,  during  the  war  of  1 812,  was  president  of 

From  the  day  when  Hudson  explored  the  river  in  1609  to  the  time     the  Village  of  Utica,  controlled  the  towing  business  on  the  Hudson, 


of  Fulton  there  was  a  steadily  increasing  procession  of  sailing  boats  up 
and  down  the  Hudson,  and  the  great  river  continued  to  be  the  chief 
artery  of  trade  until  the  completion  of  the  Hudson  River  Railroad 
in  1 85 1.  But  before  that  time  the  Van  Santvoords,  father  and  son, 
had  been  potent  factors  in  the  utilization  of  the  Hudson  River 
for  the  development  of  its  huge  and  growing  commerce. 


boats,  building  the  Daniel  Dr 
251  feet  long,  in  1  860,  the  great 
freight-carriers,  the  Oswego  and 
theCayuga,and  the  famous  River 
Queen,  which  figured  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  Civil  War. 

Having  held  profitable  freight 
business  in  competition  with  the 
railroads,  the  Commodore  made 
a  radical  departure  in  1863  by 
bidding  more  especially  for  pas- 
senger traffic  in  establishing  the 
Albany  Day  Line. 

The  still  further  development 
of  this  business,  until  it  has  called 
for  the  construction  of  the  greatest 
river  steamer  in  the  world,  has 
been  the  work  of  the  son-in-law 
of  Commodore  Van  Santvoord, 
Eben  E.  Olcott,  by  profession  a 
mining  engineer,  now  president 
of  the  Hudson  River  Day  Line. 

The  Hudson  River  Day  Line 
has  ever  been  actively  identified 
with  all  river  interests ;  and  the 
public  are  always  most  bounti- 
fully provided  for. 


ran  some  of  the  first  boats  on  the  Erie  Canal,  which  was  opened  in 
1825,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  and  the  treasurer  of  the  People's 
Line,  started  in  1835. 

His  son,  Alfred,  born  in  1 8 1 9,  grew  up  in  the  business  and  inherited 
with  it  the  problem  of  competing  successfully  with  steam  railroads. 
This  he  dealt  with  by  increasing  the  size  and  carrying  capacity  of  his 


COMMODORE  ALFRED  VAN  SANTVOORD,  whose  father 
was  a  pioneer  boatman  on  the  Erie  Canal.  The  son  inherited  and 
extended  the  business  and  established  the  Day  Line  to  Albany  in  1863. 


PRESIDENT  E.  E.  OLCOTT,  who  succeeded  his  father-in-law, 
Commodore  Van  Santvoord,  as  head  of  the  Hudson  River  Day  Line, 
and  built  the  "Hendrick  Hudson"  to  meet  the  great  increasing  traffic. 


"HENDRICK  HUDSON"  just  before  the  launching.  Miss  Olcott, 
standing  under  the  bow  with  a  bottle  of  Catskill  spring  water,  ready  to 
name  the  vessel.    Her  father,  President  E.  E.  Olcott,  near  the  centre. 


"HENDRICK  HUDSON"  starting  down  the  ways  to  the  cheering 
of  500  steamship  and  railroad  officials,  and  of  Charles  H.  Haswell, 
who  recalled  the  launching  of  the  "Chancellor  Livingston"  in  1816. 


HUDSON  DAY  LINER  "HEN  UR1CK  HUDSON"  floating  on  even  keel  in  Newburgh  Bay  after  the  launching,  March  31,  1906. 
"HENDRICK  HUDSON"  seen  from  Marvel  Shipyards  after  launching,  a  tug  making  fast  to  tow  the  hull  down  to  W.  &  A.  Fletcher  Co.'s 
yards  at  Hoboken  to  receive  magnificent  superstructure  and  machinery,  which  are  to  be  triumphs  of  the  arts  of  joiner,  decorator  and  engineer. 


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In  the  log  of  the  "Half  Moon"  it  is  recorded  that  when  Hen- 
drick  Hudson  sailed  through  the  Narrows  and  past  Staten  Island 
in  1609  he  discovered  three  rivers  and  headed  his  vessel  up  "the 
great  streame. "  This  was  the  Shatemuc,  in  the  Indian  nomen- 
clature, the  North  River  to  the  earlier  colonists,  to  distinguish  it 
from  the  South  River,  or  the  Delaware,  and  afterward  properly 
named  the  Hudson  in  honor  of  the  man  who  sailed  in  the  Half 
Moon  to  a  point  117  miles  from  the  mouth  of  the  stream,  to 
where  the  town  of  Hudson  now  stands,  and  sent  a  small  boat  as 
far  as  the  site  of  A'bany,  143  miles  from  the  sea.  The  other 
rivers  that  Hudson  noted  were  the  Kill  von  Kull  and  the  East 
River. 

"THE  GREAT  STREAME"  it  is  to-day,  sometimes  feebly  de- 
scribed as  the  "Rhine  of  America,"  rising  in  the  famous  North 
Woods  or  Adirondacks,  flowing  for  over  300  miles  into  New  York 
Bay,  the  tide  reaching  to  Troy,  166  miles  from  its  mouth,  and 
the  broad,  deep  stream  affording  secure  passage  to  the  largest  ships 
as  far  as  Hudson.  In  1825  the  Hudson  was  linked  to  the  Great 
Lakes  by  the  Erie  Canal,  and  prior  to  that  an  almost  uninterrupted 
waterway  to  the  St.  Lawrence  was  afforded  by  the  portage  between 
the  Hudson  and  Lake  George. 

Flanked  at  its  mouth  by  New  York  City,  Jersey  City  and  Hobo- 
ken,  the  Hudson  is  an  important  artery  of  trade  laying  tributary 
a  population  of  nearly  10,000,000. 

During  the  last  ten  years  the  shipyards  of  the  Hudson  have  pro- 
duced all  classes  of  wood  and  steel  vessels,  the  largest  of  which  is 
the  Hendrick  Hudson.  The  contract  for  this  craft  is  being  filled 
by  the  W.  &  A.  Fletcher  Co.  of  Hoboken,  who  sublet  the  build- 
ing of  the  hull  to  the  T.  S.  Marvel  Shipbuilding  Cc.  of  Newburgh, 


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and  the  cabinet  work  to  John  Englis  &  Sons  of  Brooklyn.  Among 
the  vessels  5uilt  by  the  Fletcher  Co.  are  the  celebrated  Hudson 
River  steamers,  Mary  Powell,  Albany,  New  York,  Adirondack, 
C.  W.  Morse,  Onteora,  Kaaterskill,  etc. 

But  though  man  has  possessed  himself  of  the  rich  territory  that 
Hudson  discovered,  the  natural  grandeur  of  the  river  scenery  has 
survived  his  sometimes  ruthless  touch. 

Passing  the  busy  wharves  of  the  cities  the  tourist  has  on  one 
hand  the  stately  heights  of  the  Palisades  and  on  the  other  the  beau- 
tiful Riverside  Park  and  Inwood  sections  of  the  metropolis,  the 
suburban  city  of  Yonkers,  and  the  magnificent  country  homes  of 
the  wealthy. 

The  river  spreads  out  into  the  Tappan  Zee,  3^  miles  wide  and 
iz  miles  long,  with  Tarrytown  on  the  right  bank  and  Stony  Point 
on  the  left. 

Dunderberg  (Thunder  Mountain  )  marks  the  beginning  of  the 
Highlands  of  the  Hudson.  Peekskill  rises  on  terraces  from  the  bay 
of  that  name,  while  on  the  left  bank  is  West  Point,  the  noted 
United  States  Military  Academy. 

Just  beyond  is  Newburgh,  where  Washington  refused  to  be  made 
king,  and  across  the  river  is  Mt.  Beacon,  whose  signal  fires  can  be 
seen  in  New  Hampshire.  At  Poughkeepsie  is  the  only  bridge  that 
crosses  the  Hudson  below  Albany.  At  Kingston  one  enters  the 
region  of  the  Catskill  Mountains,  and  for  twenty-five  miles  there 
is  unfolded  a  panorama  of  surpassing  beauty.  The  crowning  peak 
of  the  Onteora  is  Slide  Mountain,  4,205  feet  high. 

As  the  steamer  nears  Albany  the  valley  widens  into  a  fertile 
farm  region  and  above  Troy  one  comes  to  the  Mohawk,  the  chief 
contributor  to  the  great  volume  of  water  that  makes  the  Hudson 
"the  great  streame." 


